I had some problems like that with some heart pain on and off last month.

I must have contracted parasites from my experiment with our not organic pork and probably infested with parasites pork.

Dr. Hulda Clark the ever parasite theory woman that she is said that they could be heart worms.
So I took my 1 tablespoon of DeWormer by http://www.Barefootherbalistmh.com and the next morning all heart pain was gone.

Good riddance to parasites.

I actually think I got a parasite a few weeks ago from eating some raw wild salmon that I bought from a grocery store... apparently almost all wild salmon carries parasites?

Anyway, I ate it then later that day I felt very nauseous. My mouth started salivating like CRAZY and I gagged a bit, and felt like I was ABOUT to throw up, but didn't. This repeated itself about once a day at random times for the next few days. It even happened in my sleep and I woke up because of it. I noticed allergies starting to come back as well. I started taking cayenne pepper again (I used to take it for allergies, but stopped needing it), to help with my allergies. It was around this time when I seriously was getting worried about the nausea I was experiencing and began wondering if I had a parasite. I read that cayenne pepper was really good to take to kill off parasites as well, so I was happy about that. From the first time I took the cayenne pepper I stopped getting those nauseous outbreaks!

Cayenne pepper seems to be good for lots of things!

yep, eating enough organs

So, an update with me vs. spleen vs. dog.

I was eating another portion today, and some fell on my white shorts that I'm wearing which left a nice, bloody stain. I promptly got up to get some hydrogen peroxide on there to get the stain out.
Now, at home we have two very small dogs. This dog that I'm sitting is much bigger. I'm not used to that. Normally, a plate left up on a desk would be unreachable to the local canine companion. Not here. I realized what I had done and ran back to the desk only to see an empty plate, with the rest of the spleen (which was most of it) on the floor with the dog standing next to it.

Oh man! My mistake... at least i didn't have to eat it 
But what a waste

Understood!
I just didn't want to make a bunch of high meat and then not be able to eat it all before it just got too old (i hear it gets very liquidy after a while)
I also didn't want to make too much or eat too much as I wasn't sure if it's the sort of thing where you only need a small amount, you know, to get that bacteria in you, and maybe too much was a bad thing.

First of all, I want to explain my workout program that I devised last night.
It's an 8 week program. Each day is a full-body workout. The first three exercises of each day are the main ones... they are compound lifts that focus primarily on the larger muscle groups: chest, back, and legs. The rest of them are more isolation type, things like arms, shoulders, abs, etc. Most of these I'll be shooting for 6-8 reps.
The first two weeks, I will be doing 3 sets, shooting for 8-10 reps, of the first three exercises. Then the next two weeks, I'll change it to 4 sets of 6-8 reps. Then the next two weeks it will be 5 sets of 5-6 reps. And then the final two weeks I will go back to 3 sets of 8-10 reps.
I've done a plan like this before in the past and it worked very well.


Monday, July 21

Had a good workout today. I felt full of energy despite not having a good night of sleep last night, which is a rarity these days. My workout lasted approx 1 hour. I took about 60-90 seconds of rest in between each set.

Here's my log of the first day of my lifting routine. (for those that don't know, the first number is the weight, and the second number is the amount of repetitions I completed. For exercises that utilize dumbbells, the weight that is shown is the weight of one dumbbell in one hand, so for instance, standing shoulder press: 20x12 means that in both hands I had a 20 lb. weight, totalling 40 lbs)

1. Bench Press
         -115x10     -115x8       -115x5
2. Leg Press
          -340x9      -340x9       -340x8
3. Lat Pulldowns
          -120x9      -120x7       -120x4
4. Standing Dumbbell Shoulder Press
          -20x12      -20x8         -20x6
5. Tricep Pushdown
          -130x7      -130x5       -120x5
6. Preacher Curls
          -70x8        -70x4        -60x6
7. Incline Crunches with added weight
          -20x10       -20x6

Nice chickens!

Nothing beats the taste of good, high-quality, farm-fresh pastured eggs!
I can only get them in very limited supply from my friend's girlfriend's mother, but man are they good!
Otherwise I get eggs from a brand called The Country Hen at my supermarket, which are very high quality compared with normal supermarket eggs, but still don't compare to the farm-fresh ones!

Yowza, you really do it up!
Nice presentation!

Oooookay, entry two.
Since my first post I've tried two more organs... Raw lamb heart and raw beef spleen. Here we go:


RAW LAMB HEART:

It's true what I've read, heart is very similar to muscle meat. The flavor is like muscle meat, and the texture is more liver-like than muscle meat, but still mostly muscle-like. It was very soft and tender. There was a good amoutn of (what I'm assuming was) fat on the outside of it, which is where all the veins were. I was expecting the veins to be elastic-like and very hard to chew, but they were actually very crunchy. Or rather, they had little crunchy "bits" in or around them. I have no idea what these were, but they were the only unpleasant part of the heart. A very good organ.


BEEF SPLEEN.

I'm eating this right now... what can I say?

Positives... 1. I'm sure this is very healthy for me.
                2. Not much else

First of all, this is very very hard to cut, and impossible to get a fork into. I dare not eat it with my hands for it is extremely messy. It is very very hard to chew. In fact I think I've injured my eye with the amount of intense chewing I've done so far, and I'm only on the third bite! 
The flavor isn't really bad or strong, but there's something kind of "ugh" about it. I can tell I'm making some nasty faces as I'm chewing this.
...
Eh, now that I'm getting into the groove of this thing, it's really not *that* bad.... it is taking FOREVER to eat though. Definitely not something you want to have to eat when you have somewhere to be anytime soon.
I'd like to say that this would have been my last experiment with the beef spleen for a long time, but the things are so danged big the one I just thawed is going to last me another two days after this one.
And I'm pretty sure I have another one or two in the freezer as well.

On a side note, I'm dog-sitting for a lady right now, and her dog seems to like the spleen. I put it out on the counter to defrost. I thought it was out of reach for the dog, and I went to take a shower. When I came back, I found the spleen on the floor (it still was wrapped in plastic thank God!). The dog had grabbed the package and tried to get to it.
Thankfully it didn't chew through the plastic and the spleen was unharmed 

There are a few recipes on the net for raw ketchup, but from what I remember they all seemed a bit more ingredient-intensive than I would have liked. I want it nice and simple lol. I don't want to have to go buy agave nectar for my ketchup! 

Thanks man! Good luck to you as well! 

Saturday July 19
Man oh man, my legs and my ass are sore from doing squats yesterday.
I forgot what it was like to be so sore that just sitting down is a chore.
I hope I'm not sore anymore by Monday morning!!


Anyways, I continue to amaze myself at how stupid I can be when it comes to eating things that I shouldn't be.
I know how negatively certain foods affect me, but I still eat them anyway. I can only accept myself as in a process and move on and try to do better! 

I know people on here say that they can eat less raw food and feel full, but man, I am always hungry! I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but now 2lbs of meat is nothing to me. For instance, today I had eaten 2 lbs of meat by 3:30... I ate the first pound at around 10:00 or so and I was going to eat the second pound much later on in the day but I was so hungry and my body was really craving it so I ate it. I'm now letting a third pound defrost so I can eat that later tonight. This is getting expensive lol!

When I first started eating the two pounds a day I wasn't getting so hungry, but that only lasted a couple days.

Slanker's is indeed a great company with an awesomely informative website.
My one complaint is that my order from them arrived partially thawed and VERY messy/bloody. It was quite a mess getting it all into the freezer!

well, since you're asking...
however, please keep in mind this quote: "Effect on humans and animals is based on laboratory tests using toxin concentrations much higher than the concentrations normally found in food."
I don't believe that all the things on this list are harmful. Obviously the ones that aren't paleo I do, but not things like spinach, tomato, stone fruits, "most fruits", etc...

Toxin family:                Examples of occurence in plants:                    Effects on humans and animals:
Cyanogenic glycosides...Sweet potatoes, stone fruits, lima beans...Gastrointestinal inflammation; inhibition of cellular respiration
Glulcosinolates...Rape (canola), mustard, radish, cabbage, peanut, soybean, onion...Goiter; impaired metabolism; reduced iodine uptake; decreased protein digestion
Glycoalkaloids...Potato, tomato...Depressed central nervous system; kidney inflammation; carcinogenic; birth defects; reduced iron uptake
Gossypol...Cottonseed...Reduced iron uptake; spermicidal; carcinogenic
Lectins...Most cereals, soybeans, other beans, potatoes...Intestinal inflammation; decreased nutrient uptake/absorption
Oxalate...Spinach, rhubarb, tomato...Reduces solubility of calcium, iron, and zinc
Phenols...Most fruits and vegetables, cereals, soybean, potato, tea, coffee...Destroys thiamine; raises cholesterol; estrogen-mimic
Coumarins...Celery, parsley, parsnips, figs...Light-activated carcinogens; skin irritation

x2 on the ketchup!